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Oyekun Peleka (Polokana)

Where the Spirit and reincarnation (Leri Ofe) are born: a sign of Olokun, where the dead takes solid form if it is not attended in time.

Oyekun Peleka (Polokana) is Odù number 38 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Oyekun family. This page brings together its prayer in Yoruba, 13 patakíes (3 with the full text), its proverbs, 8 ebbós and works and the signs it shows in the consultation; the detail of iré and osogbo, the eewó and the full recipes open with the Babalawo plan — that locked part is still written in Spanish.

The sign at a glance

Order in Ifá: Odù 38 of 256
Composition: Oyekun over Okana
In the Diloggún: 2-1 · Eyioko tonti Okana
Orishas that speak: Olokun · Aye (Aye Shalunga) · Oshún (Yalorde) · Eggun · Azowanu (Shakuana) · Oduduwa · Obatalá y Shangó

What Ifá says in this sign

Oyekun Kana is the sign where the Spirit and reincarnation (Leri Ofe) were born: an Ifá of Olokun and of spiritual water, where the world of the dead touches the world of the living with both hands — to give light or to disturb: it depends on who attends them.

Its urgent business is cleaning the spiritual house: there is a dark dead one, a sorcerer's, who upsets everything — an Oparaldo with a white hen must be done without delay. The signs are clear: Ikú walks about the house and wants to dance with this person, the dog howls at night, there is something buried in the doorway, and the child who cries out at night is seeing things — do not scold them: cleanse them.

«Ikú walks about the house and wants to dance — the Oparaldo done in time takes her partner away.»The pulse of Oyekun Peleka (Polokana)

The temper of this sign needs a brake: here people betray without thinking about it, and this person is hard-headed, listens to no advice and carries other people's blame through their own bad head. Respect your elders in blood and in religion — disrespect here is paid for with curses — and do not argue, at home or at work.

Care for the body and for love: the blood and the sores on the feet need a doctor; no alcohol, and do not accept what is offered to you. In love this odu is blunt — unfaithfulness under that roof, a wife who wants to go off with a man who gives her nothing —: the unmarried woman needs her Ikofá to marry on solid ground, and the marriage needs the truth.

Its remedies come with music: give Oshún an asheré covered in coral and play it every day — the good is certain; give Eggun a lit pipe and two doves; and when the Awó sees this odu, his child stays in for seven days. With the dead sent away and the spiritual water served, the spirit that was born here works for you, not against you.

The sign in one line

Send the dark dead away, respect your elders and play the asheré for Oshún every day — in Oyekun Kana the spirit gives light to whoever attends it.

The prayer of Oyekun Peleka (Polokana) · Yoruba

Oyekun Peleka adifafun Okana oyeyu Obara yiré wá obini Ayé oloñu Ogu tiyun larifun lodi ikú Oyekun Peleka.

Ifá says — what Oyekun Peleka (Polokana) tells you

Ni kaferefún Olokun and the Spiritual Water.
When the Awó sees this Ifá, his child does not go out into the street for 7 days, because the child can be killed.
Illness of the blood and venereal disease; sores on the feet.
You must respect your elders, in blood and in religion.
Here people betray without thinking twice.
Ikú walks about the house and wants to dance with you.
A child who sees things at night and cries out because of it.
The obini wants to go off with another man.
You are hard-headed and listen to no advice; you feel like a prisoner tied down.
You make an attempt on your own life, do not succeed, and live with the marks of it in body and mind.
A dog howling at night in the house, and it is holding you back.
A woman who left her husband for another man who gives her nothing.
There is unfaithfulness: the lover eats and sleeps in the house.
A sorcerer's dead one upsetting everything in the house; an Oparaldo must be done with adié okán funfun.
A person with a bad head who may end up carrying someone else's blame.
A pregnant woman whose child is not her husband's.
Something buried in the doorway of the house.
An unmarried woman who must receive Ikofá in order to marry and have solid ground under her marriage.

Proverbs of Oyekun Peleka (Polokana) · Òwe

“Whoever does not respect their elders carries curses.”
“The dead that is not attended takes solid form and rules your life.”
“Do not take what is offered to you through someone else's hand.”
“Whoever is jealous of themselves lets no one live.”
“Opportunity is bald and has to be caught by the hair.”
“The story of the ancestors is in the memory of Ifá.”
“Anger blocks reason.”
“Destruction does not produce rebuilding.”
“From nothing everything begins and to nothing it will return.”
“What may cost little today will cost a great deal tomorrow.”
“Blessing lives in the house of the even-tempered; the curse, in the house of the unbeliever.”
“The deities mock the mockers and take pity on the grieving.”
“The wise leave their honor behind them; the foolish, their disgrace.”

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Iré and Osogbo

7 iré and osogbo readings in this Odù, locked.The iré and osogbo of the sign, sorted by subject — health, money, love, death, loss… Written in Spanish for now.Unlock →

What is born in Oyekun Peleka (Polokana) · Ìbí

The road of reincarnation (Leri Ofe).
The Spirit.
From the road where Oduduwa received the power of Olokun and the children of Aye were changed.
Aye Shalunga.
The religious preparation of the paint.
It was known as such in Ogbe Tua, but it was consecrated in Oyekun Peleka; that is why the one who paints the lerí of the iyabó is the babalawo.

What is forbidden · Eewó

5 eewó (taboos) in this Odù, locked.What the child of this sign must not eat, do or wear. Written in Spanish for now.Unlock →

Ebbós of Oyekun Peleka (Polokana) · The sacrifices that open the road

Pushing death awayEbbó against Ikú🔒 Babalawo

EggunEbbó of the pipe🔒 Babalawo

Sorcerer's deadEbbó for the one with interests tied to the dead🔒 Babalawo

Protecting the childLittle passion-fruit gourd to prevent the child's death🔒 Babalawo

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Works of Oyekun Peleka (Polokana) · The workings of the sign

Aye OrishaSecret of Aye Orisha Oshún🔒 Babalawo

ReincarnationEfun bath for the little girl🔒 Babalawo

Driving a spirit offWork of the calabash-tree stick🔒 Babalawo

Adodi and AlakuatasCeremony for the Adodi or Alakuatas🔒 Babalawo

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Patakíes of Oyekun Peleka (Polokana) · The roads of the Odù

1The curse of Aye

Olofin took Aye to the land of Obara Yire to show her that her daughter would not come out flawed as she was. Spurned, Aye cursed that land, and the seven children of Obara Yire were turned into Adodi and Alakuatas.

Aye lived with Olokun, who knew all her secrets but mistrusted her over an old matter with Orishaoko. Walking through paradise, they came to the land of Obara Darare, where Obara Yire lived. Olokun, to show that he did not want his children carrying the mother's flaws, announced that the daughter Aye was expecting would not come out like her; they stayed there seven months. Aye gave birth to a very beautiful girl who, once she was grown a little, showed remarkable understanding (she was lerifun lodikua), proving what Olokun had said.

Aye, upset at how her daughter had been born, wept a great deal and one day began to curse the land of Obara Darare. At that moment, the seven youngest children of Obara Yire and his wife Doyebelde were changed: some into Adodi and others into Alakuatas. Obara Yire went to Olokun to find out what was happening, and Olokun showed him what his children had become.

2The lost child

A mischievous, stubborn boy disobeyed his mother and went into the forbidden bush; he tore up the shrub that was the god of the bush, and the god shut him away. Elegba sent the goat to protect him, and the goat took the blame.

There was a very mischievous and stubborn boy who did not listen to his mother. One day he went into the bush, something his parents had forbidden because of the danger. A shrub caught his eye — it was the god of the bush — and he tore it up; the god, watching what he did, put a spell on him and shut him away. Elegba, seeing what was happening, sent the ounko, the goat, to protect the boy. The goat, with his horns, damaged another part of the shrub; the god thought it was the boy again and flew into a rage, but Ayaguna — a form of Odduwa — appeared and cleared it up: «it was not the boy, it was the goat». And so the goat was the one accused.

3Ifá of reincarnation

Leri Ofo did not have her ceremony done before she was three; she grew up with a spirit in solid form that was jealous of her. That spirit dragged her into a lost life and into losing the pregnancy, and her child was born ill.

Leri Ofo was born on earth on a kind of loan and needed a great ceremony before she turned three; her parents did not do it, and she grew up with the spirit in solid form beside her, jealous of her as if it were her father, though in its last life that spirit had been a woman. Once she was a young woman, she married a man she liked but the spirit did not, and so she led a bad life: the spirit worked on her, she was not happy with her husband and began to look at other men, until she took up with a friend of her husband and became pregnant by him.

The spirit liked that man, but what it really wanted was for the young woman to lead the same lost life it had led itself. In dreams it told her to drink potions to end the pregnancy, but the child, who was an omo of Shakuana, was born with marks and sores all over the body, and she fell ill with the very thing the spirit had suffered before its own fall. That is why an unmarried woman must receive Ikofá in order to marry on solid ground, and a little girl is given the efun bath at three years old.

4The Spirit was born🔒 Babalawo

5The religious preparation of the paint was born🔒 Babalawo

6The disobedience of the king's son🔒 Babalawo

7The quarrel over the hunted elephant🔒 Babalawo

8The farmer's treasure🔒 Babalawo

9The catastrophe🔒 Babalawo

10The wild prince🔒 Babalawo

11The battle between the she-devil and Olokun🔒 Babalawo

12A scrap of paper speaks🔒 Babalawo

13The princess with good judgement🔒 Babalawo

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Frequently asked questions about Oyekun Peleka (Polokana)

What does the Odù Oyekun Peleka (Polokana) mean in Ifá?

Where the Spirit and reincarnation (Leri Ofe) are born: a sign of Olokun, where the dead takes solid form if it is not attended in time.

What number is Oyekun Peleka (Polokana) among the 256 Odù of Ifá?

Oyekun Peleka (Polokana) is Odù number 38 of the 256 in Ifá, part of the Oyekun family.

Which orishas speak in Oyekun Peleka (Polokana)?

In the Odù Oyekun Peleka (Polokana) these orishas speak: Olokun, Aye (Aye Shalunga), Oshún (Yalorde), Eggun, Azowanu (Shakuana), Oduduwa, Obatalá y Shangó.

What is a proverb of the Odù Oyekun Peleka (Polokana)?

One of the proverbs of Oyekun Peleka (Polokana) says: «Whoever does not respect their elders carries curses.».

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